@mindimager
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience @Temple U. Cognitive neuro, cognitive control, adolescent brain development, digital media/social media, working memory, risk taking, cognitive enhancement. Director of TUBRIC, PI of CABLAB (sites.temple.edu/CABLAB)
“We propose a new model in which public communication and advocacy are considered as essential to our mission as rigor and reproducibility—critical not only for safeguarding science, but also for ensuring that its benefits reach all segments of the societies we serve”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Neat registered report from @mattmattoni.bsky.social @dvsmith.bsky.social @mindimager.bsky.social and @olinotom.bsky.social diving into the tension between nomothetic (group-level) v. idiographic (individual specific) in functional connectivity models.
#Neuroskyence
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
A deserving recognition for an incredible scientist and a great colleague. Congrats Nora! @noranewcombe.bsky.social
Congrats Nora!
Super cool paper Ken and team!
So excited that our work on children’s ability to discern real from AI-generated content received this recognition. We show that kids systematically misjudge some types of AI content as human, and that kids who use more technology in the home are worse at AI detection. Way to go Allison and team!
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
Nice write up of our paper (with @vpmurty.bsky.social) showing that memories expressed with greater “authenticity” are more accurate, but people don’t use that information in judging whether someone actually remembers the event accurately or not, and instead use unreliable signals of accuracy.
This is great, and freely accessible!
Beyond honored! Credit to the amazing students and collaborators who I’ve had the incredible privilege to work beside along the way.
Alert! ... for the child development world!
@fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social
The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive.
Check here:
docs.hbcdstudy.org
and here:
nbdc-datahub.org
Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼
Alert!!!!
“An Action Networks Model for Pain”
We propose a new model for chronic pain — and highlight two functionally connected cortical networks that could revolutionize how we treat it.
👉 thread below 🧵
osf.io/preprints/ps...
New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
This new article by @aaronjfisher.bsky.social, @mindimager.bsky.social, et al. is important for cogneuro research b/c it discusses the common yet problematic assumption that inferences based on group averages are applicable to inherently intraindividual processes. (1/3)
Exactly!
While the 'belief' plot draws attention, the core message of the final, deliberative consensus statements is that evidence linking smartphone and social media use to negative outcomes is limited, mixed, context-dependent, insufficient to support causal claims, and better research is needed.
Check if your university has signed. Write to your President if not.
screenshot of semantic distance R package information
New R package almost birthed - SemanticDistance - computes two semantic distance metrics (experiential and embedding) for any rolling chunk size (ngram-to-ngram, word-to-word, turn-to-turn, ngram-to-word). You give it your language sample. It does the rest, including lemmatize and stopword omit
Congrats Amy - some really great stuff in here!
Thinking about fMRI study designs for brain-based prediction? Updated preprint!
The research grants canceled this week will stop treatments in rural communities, will stop the study of cures for conditions that affect all people, and will take away jobs from lower and middle class folks who live in “red” states. Period.
With teens, it doesn't help to just say no to screen time. Instead, experts suggest teaching them to be smarter viewers of content, and learn to recognize how influencers and algorithms can manipulate them.
NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline?
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
www.ft.com/content/a801...
New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024.
That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.
Show me a better investment than that.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
|| New Publication (Nature Communications)
Psychological Booster Shots Targeting Memory Increase Long-Term Resistance Against Misinformation
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Press Release
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-03...
Key Findings
* Inoculation works
* Effects dissipate
* Booster shots remedy this
(1/10)
Very excited that this fun collaborative piece with @aliocohen.bsky.social is now in press!
We highlight how insights from adolescent brain development can shape and enhance computational models of learning.
I love this Steve! What a powerful observation.
Awesome work from our student, Steven Martinez!
My lab’s latest paper, with @vpmurty.bsky.social. Memory for a scary real-world event (a haunted house) is reflected in the “authenticity” of expressed memories, but listeners mistakenly think accuracy is reflected in how “analytic” the expressed memory is - oops!
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Maybe he’ll be announcing “concepts” of a deal.
